Free Speech Quotes - Page 19

• I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government.

  Brigham Young

  Hate, Government, Land

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• The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

  Mike Godwin

  Freedom Of Speech, Trying, Firsts

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• Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

  Keith Henson

  Successful, Wind, Age

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• I don't understand why they call it public broadcasting. As far as I am concerned, there's nothing public about it; it's an elitist enterprise. 'Rush Limbaugh' is public broadcasting.

  Newt Gingrich

  Internet, Broadcasting, Enterprise

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• That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

  Newt Gingrich

  Country, Games, Play

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• ... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

  Larry Ellison

  Mistake, Successful, Greed

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• I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away from the landowner when you trespass, most people understand and respect the laws that make it illegal. The real crime in copyright violation is not the making of the copies, it's the expropriation of the creator's right to control the creation.

  Brad Templeton

  Real, Thinking, Law

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• Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

  William J. Clinton

  Moving, Eye, Technology

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• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  Solon

  Law, Break Through, Spiders

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

  Wendell Berry

  Novelty, Internet, Adaptation

  Wendell Berry (2011). “Standing by Words”, p.102, Counterpoint Press

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• The notion dies hard that in some sort of way exports are patriotic but imports are immoral.

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech

  Patriotic, Way, Internet

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• The Internet is a perfect diversion from learning... it opens many doors that lead to empty rooms.

  Clifford Stoll

  Empty Rooms, Doors, Perfect

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• Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

  Karl Popper

  Mistake, Criticism, Serious

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• We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

  McKenzie Wark

  Internet

  McKenzie Wark (1994). “Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events”, p.76, Indiana University Press

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• Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Laughing, Internet

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• Where's there's money involved, there are no good guys.

  Robert Glaser

  Guy, Internet, Involved

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• Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Defeat, Internet, Threat

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• It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

  Samuel Morse

  Country, Land, Long

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• Life is a process which may be abstracted from other media.

  John von Neumann

  Media, May, Life Is

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• Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

  William Cohen

  Jobs, Lasts, Computer

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• I doubt that Congress would pass on the opportunity to make sure that our children were safe from terrorists.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Children, Opportunity, Doubt

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• It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.

  John Updike

  Book, Smell, Giving

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• I've been asked to explain why I don't worry much about the topics of privacy threat...One reason is that these scenarios seem to assume that there will be large, monolithic bureaucracies...that are capable of harnessing computers for one-way surveillance of an unsuspecting populace. I've come to feel that computation just doesn't work that way. Being afraid of monolithic organizations especially when they have computers, is like being afraid of really big gorillas especially when they are on fire.

  Bruce Sterling

  Fire, Organization, Worry

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• The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

  Patrick Leahy

  Technology, Internet, Hell

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• Everybody has a different Internet.

  Bruce Sterling

  Different, Internet

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